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As a Studio Art major, you’ll gain a variety of skills and techniques that will enable you to work successfully in fields related to art or to pursue graduate study. This program provides easy access to elective courses, freedom to double major, and opportunities to study off- campus.

To reflect the breadth and variety of art and visual culture, the Art History program offers a diverse, comprehensive curriculum in the history of world cultures. Students learn how to articulate and express their ideas about art while developing research and writing skills as tools for communicating about art.

A professional studio degree that fosters the development of studio artists and creative thinkers. Students take courses that include topics ranging from historical through contemporary issues in art, technical demonstrations, and rigorous critiques of student work.

The Graphic Design program focuses on sustainability and social impact, while developing a capacity for critical thinking, problem solving, and innovation. Courses will give you the opportunity to study the symbiotic nature of design and culture in local and global communities.

Through this program, you will learn how architectural elements interact and synthesize to meet physical, psychological, social, and intellectual needs of people in a variety of settings. A program designed for those sensitive to the use of materials and details in a built environment, who are attentive to color, enjoy drawing, constructing, and organizing objects and spaces.

Have you always wanted to be an art teacher or recently imagined a career path in art education? Earn a bachelor’s degree in Art and a master’s degree, with a Multi-Age Visual Arts License, in a total of five years!

As a Studio Art major, you’ll gain a variety of skills and techniques that will enable you to work successfully in fields related to art or to pursue graduate study. This program provides easy access to elective courses, freedom to double major, and opportunities to study off- campus.

“In this piece, I’m attempting to embrace dark skin and all the notions surrounding it. My work is evolving from a micro expression, a scientific interest of skin cells and melanin to a more macro look at how I view beauty and femininity. Through this process I have come to love my skin more. Expressing my feelings and being vulnerable was not easy, but my professors really pushed it out of me and made it OK. That’s what being an artist is about.“

"When starting a new project, I just go for it. Most people start with research and sketches but for me it’s about getting started. In our program you are encouraged to develop your own process. I believe that unless you’re given complete artistic freedom you won’t be doing what you love."

Featured News

In Shale Play, acclaimed poet Julia Spicher Kasdorf and award-winning documentary photographer Steven Rubin explore the small towns, farms, and forests of Appalachian Pennsylvania to gather the stories of these places and the working people who inhabit them.

Featured News

Students of the graphic design program in The School of Art + Design present “Off the Grid,” a thesis exhibition on view March 25–March 30 at the Dairy Barn Arts Center in Athens. The opening reception, Tuesday, March 26, beginning at 5 p.m. is free and open to the public.